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I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More I cannot say.
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Douglas Adams
Age: 49 †
Born: 1952
Born: March 11
Died: 2001
Died: May 11
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You know, said Arthur, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Why, what did she tell you? I don't know, I didn't listen.
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...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right.
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If somebody votes for a party that you don't agree with, you're free to argue about it as much as you like. ... But on the other hand, if somebody says, 'I mustn't move a light switch on a Saturday,' you say, 'Fine, I respect that.'
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For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact Forty-two - and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was.
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It's good to leave your room super-messy when you're away. Whoever tries to break into your room will thought it has already been ransacked.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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Assumptions are the things we don't know we're making.
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I wanted to be John Cleese. It took me some time to realise that the job was taken.
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Marvin started his ironical humming again. Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
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Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
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